I now get all the shares of control and who has what power and the main thing I take out of it is that regardless of the fact we all want the parasites out Ratcliffe simply isn’t a stupid man, this is a self made billionaire with a huge company that turns over 50 times what United does and has made more profit in a year that United have ever turned over in a year whilst Ratcliffe has been involved in takeovers bigger than United also.
It should be clear that this initial 25% is just Ratcliffe getting his foot in the door and he’s managed to get control of the footballing side of the business which is where we’ve been shocking for a decade, we’ve been brilliant on the commercial side and bringing revenue streams in has never been a problem for the club even with the parasites involved.
For every investment into the infrastructure Ratcliffe gains more of a percentage of the club so by this time next year will own 30% or possibly more as he’s apparently made an offer to buy the whole 31% that’s listed on the stock exchange, it’s also quite clear the setting up of Trawlers Limited is to avoid the dual ownership problem but you can bet your life Ineos will be massively involved through loopholes and any investment in infrastructure doesn’t get included in FFP so slowly Ratcliffe can gain more control by having Trawlers/Ineos rebuilding/modernising the stadium and training ground as well as possibly the land around the stadium.
In regards to the argument of ‘what if Ratcliffe wants x amount for transfers whilst the parasites only want to give x amount’ I’m sure I’ve read by respected journalists that Ratcliffe would put the maximum allowed personal investment (£30 million ?) into the club each year to help with FFP and cash flow but what we spend each year hasn’t really been the problem, it’s how we’ve spent it and who on that’s been shocking.
It’s clear that Ratcliffe will bring in Blanc and Brailsford as CEO and Director Of Performance respectively then it looks like the plan is Mitchell as Head Of Recruitment and Ashworth as Director Of Football who are amongst the best in those positions and which gives us a brilliant and modern footballing structure rather than seeing money men with zero footballing knowledge like Woodward and Arnold or people completely out of their depth like Murtough millions to waste on big names at the end of their career or big names to sell shirts instead of a balanced squad with hungry players with potential to be world class like we’d always been.
Is 25% ideal ? No as we all want the parasites gone for good BUT this isn’t and won’t be a continuation of how things have been for the past 10 years as Ratcliffe is a very intelligent man who’ll surround himself with other very intelligent footballing people to make sure the mistakes of the past 10 years are no longer repeated and I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw some people from the past brought back in roles either, it won’t be a quick fix and maybe not even obvious by the end of next season BUT it’s a start and for that we should be happy as we’re now almost certainly at the start of seeing the parasites being phased out seeing as four want to leave and Ratcliffe at 70 isn’t doing this to make money.
It should be clear that this initial 25% is just Ratcliffe getting his foot in the door and he’s managed to get control of the footballing side of the business which is where we’ve been shocking for a decade, we’ve been brilliant on the commercial side and bringing revenue streams in has never been a problem for the club even with the parasites involved.
For every investment into the infrastructure Ratcliffe gains more of a percentage of the club so by this time next year will own 30% or possibly more as he’s apparently made an offer to buy the whole 31% that’s listed on the stock exchange, it’s also quite clear the setting up of Trawlers Limited is to avoid the dual ownership problem but you can bet your life Ineos will be massively involved through loopholes and any investment in infrastructure doesn’t get included in FFP so slowly Ratcliffe can gain more control by having Trawlers/Ineos rebuilding/modernising the stadium and training ground as well as possibly the land around the stadium.
In regards to the argument of ‘what if Ratcliffe wants x amount for transfers whilst the parasites only want to give x amount’ I’m sure I’ve read by respected journalists that Ratcliffe would put the maximum allowed personal investment (£30 million ?) into the club each year to help with FFP and cash flow but what we spend each year hasn’t really been the problem, it’s how we’ve spent it and who on that’s been shocking.
It’s clear that Ratcliffe will bring in Blanc and Brailsford as CEO and Director Of Performance respectively then it looks like the plan is Mitchell as Head Of Recruitment and Ashworth as Director Of Football who are amongst the best in those positions and which gives us a brilliant and modern footballing structure rather than seeing money men with zero footballing knowledge like Woodward and Arnold or people completely out of their depth like Murtough millions to waste on big names at the end of their career or big names to sell shirts instead of a balanced squad with hungry players with potential to be world class like we’d always been.
Is 25% ideal ? No as we all want the parasites gone for good BUT this isn’t and won’t be a continuation of how things have been for the past 10 years as Ratcliffe is a very intelligent man who’ll surround himself with other very intelligent footballing people to make sure the mistakes of the past 10 years are no longer repeated and I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw some people from the past brought back in roles either, it won’t be a quick fix and maybe not even obvious by the end of next season BUT it’s a start and for that we should be happy as we’re now almost certainly at the start of seeing the parasites being phased out seeing as four want to leave and Ratcliffe at 70 isn’t doing this to make money.
